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It’s Spooky Season, SHIRO! community! To celebrate, our October Community Challenge will be a monster mash of an action puzzler! Success in this slippery stacker will require participants to be…
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An English translation patch for the Saturn home-exclusive action puzzler Monster Slider is now available! While this patch was created specifically for the October SHIRO! Community Challenge — more details…
Best Of Saturn
While 1998 was the death knell for the Saturn in the West, the East saw well more than 200 releases, including Datt Japan’s strategy RPG Valhollian. Set in a medieval…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is a historical simulation title from Koei, the premier publisher for that sort of game in the ’90s. Wall of Fire…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! GAMESTREAM AND CHAT! This week, we’ll just be chilling with some Culdcept and the latest fan translations that hit the scene. This is more of…
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The Indie Game Studio Memoria Pixel, a team of software and hardware developers from Brazil, has provided new details on its in-development homebrew project titled Kid Racers, coming soon to…
Editorial
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have…
Best Of Saturn
Based on the Madou Monogatari universe, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is a top-down rougelike action RPG produced and released by Compile in April 1998. The story sees the player…
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The summer of Saturn blazes on even into fall with yet another English fan translation on the Saturn thanks to KoolFiller! The first release of the Arcade Gears series of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
If you put the disc for the Saturn game Heir of Zendor into your PC’s CD-ROM drive, you’ll see a file called 99README.TXT. It contains messages from the game’s development…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – MAINLINE CAST: EP 9 – The Top Voted Saturn Games in Japan – Under the Microscope: Blazing…
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The Dreamcast sure has been getting a lot of love lately. Sonic R is the latest title to join the recent avalanche of fan-made ports to Sega’s sixth-generation powerhouse with…
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On September 7, developer Grimfel announced his work in progress to port Resident Evil 2 to the Sega Saturn, and he had it running on real hardware by the 13th!…
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Exxistance dropped his and Wiredcrackpot’s English translation hack for the Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll this morning on his GitHub. Developed by Betop and published by I’Max in 1996 in Japan,…
Best Of Saturn
Disney-based games were always a hit on the Mega Drive / Genesis, and the SEGA AGES entry I Love Mickey Mouse / I Love Donald Duck features both Castle of…
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For the first time in nearly two years, the fan recreating X-Men Arcade on Sega Saturn released an update. X-Men Arcade Version 0.5.0D is linked in the YouTube video below,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Puyo Puyo Tsuu (Saturn) – Shadows of the Tusk #BestOfSaturn – Meduza Team Releases…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Blazing Dragons was an animated TV series created by Monty Python alum Terry Jones and entertainment industry wizard Gavin Scott. It ran for two seasons between 1996 and 1998. This…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast! Episode 9: The Top Voted Saturn Games in Japan Air Date: 2026-09-12 Patreon Early Access: 2026-09-03 In this episode, join Patrick, Peter, Nick,…
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Released by CheeseburgerFreedomMan over on SegaXtreme at the end of last month, an English translation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion dating game Girlfriend of Steel has made second impact on…
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Developer Hinges (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam) appears to be well underway with the rapid-fire creation of a user-friendly 3D game development tool for Sega Saturn….
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Longtime translation patch group Meduza Team is back with another shadowdropped effort — this time it’s Madou Monogatari, also known as Sorcery Saga. The patch went up Tuesday on Meduza…
Best Of Saturn
Having already experimented with the Saturn’s online facilities with Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft saw fit to unleash the card strategy game Shadows of the Tusk on Japanese gamers in mid-1998….
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: NBA Jam Tournament Edition, NBA Jam Extreme – Princess Crown #BestOfSaturn – Princess Maker…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In a previous edition, I wrote about how some Saturn games censor their high score screens. If you try to put your initials in as XXX or SEX, they’ll replace…
Editorial
The Cat Came Back… Few Saturn homebrew projects have had quite the evolution of 7Shades’ CubeCat. What began as a modest experiment by a programmer learning his way around Saturn…
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A fan is hacking an old English translation into the Saturn version of daughter-raising simulator Princess Maker 2. Washbear posted a thread on SegaXtreme last week showing off her progress…
Best Of Saturn
Stylized 2D graphics and multi-arc storyline lovers, step right up to Princess Crown, a late 1997 Atlus side-scrolling action game laden with RPG elements. Players take on the role of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Bust-A-Move 3 – Ninpen Manmaru #BestOfSaturn – Version 2.0 of Willy Wombat English Improvement…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The two Saturn NBA Jam games all have lots of “secret” stuff — cheat codes, bonus teams, extra players. Most of these things were documented in magazines and online in…
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At last, a translator is on board the effort to turn Grandia: Digital Museum’s script into English, according to the project lead. TrekkiesUnite118 posted Wednesday on SegaXtreme that Wiredcrackpot has…
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This morning, version 2.0 of Exxistance’s Willy Wombat English Improvement patch went live. This patch is markedly more ambitious than its version 1.0 predecessor, going well beyond English menus. Exxistance’s…
Best Of Saturn
Ninpen Manmaru originated as a manga series that spawned an anime and, eventually, a Saturn-exclusive 3D platformer developed by Tam Tam and published by Enix in 1997. In the game,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Shadows of the Tusk – Baroque #BestOfSaturn – Saturn News Roundup: Cinepak PandaMonium Video,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re examining Bust-A-Move 3 (a.k.a. Puzzle Bobble 3), the puzzle game from Taito. While looking through this game’s data, some strings that seem to be part of…